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Saturday Morning at 8, we’ll take on the issue everyone is talking about regarding the legalizing of poison to help control feral hog numbers. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is the man who passed this directive and he drops in to give us his take and the research behind allowing the KAPUT poison into the food chain.

Next we are joined by serious predator hunter Colten Gillum of Laramy, Wyoming. Colten is an exceptional coyote hunter and recently took it a step further by calling in this male mountain lion. They said it couldn’t be done, but he went and did it! Talk about the predator hunter’s bucket-list achievement.

We wrap things up by talking sheep hunting with bow-hunter Tony Loop. Tony recently broke the world record for Desert Big Horn taken with archery equipment. He hunted this ram for 21 days before finally having an opportunity to put a stalk on the old warrior.

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On this weeks Lone Star Outdoors Show, we talk long range shooting with Joe Baker of Geo Ballistics, off season whitetail management with Dr. Deer, trout and redfish with a banged up Captain Len Girard (just got out of the hospital after a 3 week stint in ICU) and we talk snow geese with a true living legend in GH Decoys 82 year old ‘Duck G’. Join us Saturday Morning at 8, on Texas Thunder Radio!

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Feb. 15, 2017) — Tie-down roper Shane Hanchey has some ground to make up in the world standings and there’s not a better place to do that than here at the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo.

The Sulphur, La., resident has two consecutive wins in the AT&T Center and will be back here for the Semi-Finals. The wins gave the 2013 world champion $4,562 in earnings here. San Antonio’s advancement through the brackets into the semi-finals and the finals is based on money won. So are the championships so from the first performance through the last, contestants are looking at dollars.

“I love the way this rodeo is set up,” Hanchey said. “I got to go play golf today. It’s good to be in one place for three nights and it’s a rodeo that doesn’t penalize you for making a mistake. This year has just been a better year than I’ve had before and I’ve been coming here a long time.”

Hanchey joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 2009. The next year, he won the rodeo in Fort Worth, came here and finished in a tie for sixth place. That was the first of seven years that he qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

He is a huge sports fan, so for him the bonus is being able to rope in the AT&T Center home of the San Antonio Spurs. He even has a Kawai Leonard jersey in his collection of sports memorabilia.

“When I was making my victory lap, I couldn’t help but think about the Spurs playing basketball here,” Hanchey added. “I’d love to meet the coach and hear what he has to say about a rodeo in his arena.”

The tie-down roping competition is tight in Bracket 3. Along with Hanchey, two other ropers have won twice. Texans Marty Yates from Stephenville, and Stetson Vest from Childress both have total earnings of $2,851. Hanchey won the second round with a 7.1-second run. He had watched Vest stop the clock in 7.5 and Yates in 7.2.

In the first round, Hanchey was 7.3. Vest finished in second with an 8.0 and Yates was third with 8.3. The rest of the field is fighting for the fourth spot to advance to the semi-finals.

Barrel racer Amberleigh Moore from Keizer, Ore., also has two wins to her credit here. Riding her mare Paige, she stopped the clock in 13.98 seconds for the second-round win. She is the only barrel racer in this bracket to have a time under 14 seconds so far. She has total earnings of $4,562 as well.

Bracket 3 continues here on Thursday night with one more opportunity for contestants to get a check and move into the semi-finals which start on Feb. 21.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Feb.15, 2017) — The following are results after the first performance of the San Antonio Stock Show Rodeo, the 12-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Large Indoor Rodeo of the Year. Complete results are available at sarodeo.com